re: If Romney Wins and the GOP takes the Senate with big numbers... (Posted on 10/10/12 at 3:56 pm to udtiger)

I agree, if the Repubs get full control and don't get shite accomplished, like Obama and the Dems didn't, I would support sweeping them all out of office. Though I wouldn't want to replace them with the current Dem crop either. If only we had more viable options.

re: If Romney Wins and the GOP takes the Senate with big numbers... (Posted on 10/10/12 at 3:58 pm to udtiger)

If that happens they better be prepared to tackle everything from taxes to entitlements! Which I hope they do, but from my experience it is much easier for the party NOT in control to complain than it's for the majority party to govern.

re: If Romney Wins and the GOP takes the Senate with big numbers... (Posted on 10/10/12 at 4:00 pm to dante)

quote:If that happens they better be prepared to tackle everything from taxes to entitlements! Which I hope they do, but from my experience it is much easier for the party NOT in control to complain than it's for the majority party to govern.

I do as well.

As for the rest of your quote, that has been the norm, but I am hopeful that there would be some backbone to do something more than just tread water.

re: If Romney Wins and the GOP takes the Senate with big numbers... (Posted on 10/10/12 at 4:00 pm to mmcgrath)

quote:They did a good job for the 6 years they held it between 2000-2006, huh? Man, if Obama had prepped for the first debate this election would be over already.

quote:What the United States needed then (and needs now) was to stimulate investment, not consumption. By 2003, Mr. Bush grasped this lesson. In that year, he cut the dividend and capital gains rates to 15 percent each, and the economy responded. In two years, stocks rose 20 percent. In three years, $15 trillion of new wealth was created. The U.S. economy added 8 million new jobs from mid-2003 to early 2007, and the median household increased its wealth by $20,000 in real terms. But the real jolt for tax-cutting opponents was that the 03 Bush tax cuts also generated a massive increase in federal tax receipts. From 2004 to 2007, federal tax revenues increased by $785 billion, the largest four-year increase in American history. According to the Treasury Department, individual and corporate income tax receipts were up 40 percent in the three years following the Bush tax cuts. And (bonus) the rich paid an even higher percentage of the total tax burden than they had at any time in at least the previous 40 years.